WELCOME TO OUR 25th YEAR!

Your Automotive News PACE Award application is more than a public statement of commitment to innovating products and processes. Applying signifies:

• Market acceptance of your innovation
• Readiness to publicize your team’s success
• The ability to stand up to a rigorous review by an independent panel of industry experts

WHY APPLY?

• Apply if you want to:
  • Celebrate and strengthen an innovation culture
  • Accelerate your innovation tempo
  • Sharpen your brand image as an innovator and expand your customer base
  • Energize your engineering and marketing teams
• Applying is a way to celebrate your engineering and marketing team successes
• Following a rigorous application review, PACE Award Finalists get a valuable assessment from an independent judging team

Being a PACE Award Finalist means global industry recognition which will help you attract new customers and key engineering talent.

WHO SHOULD APPLY?

• Suppliers with innovations delivered to automotive assembler's with a significant impact on vehicles produced between the start of the 2018 Model Year and the end of the 2019 Calendar Year.   
  • Vehicles include Passenger Cars, Light-Duty Trucks, Commercial Trucks, Trailers, and Buses, plus Two or Three Wheel Devices used for personal transportation
  • Innovations include Products, Processes, Materials, or Capital Equipment
  • Information System enabled changes affecting vehicles, connectivity, usability or vehicle operations